Unlike say, an eagle, the Milky Way will generally be the same for everyone across the planet. This gallery of images proves without a doubt that context is everything, as it portrays the incredible depth and beauty of the visible part of our galaxy with a dazzling variety of locations.
The title is long and descriptive, but it's not enough: this video breaks down the individual samples that constitute a popular track from each year, showing you step by step how the layers add up, and it's a master class in musical transformation.
This beautifully-assembled exhibition pairs together photographs, posters, audio, and more to present the rich and complex history of the most important liquid on the planet.
I make no secret for my love of the mundane and ubiquitous, so you know that an in-depth look at the deep and complex landscape of silica gel fascinates me.
Hat tip to Widgett Walls (look up his eclectic bedlam on Mixcloud), who provided the insight on this completely unnecessary yet absolutely important reference on various handheld foodstuffs, visualized and animated in an assortment of angles.
Languages are so different and alike from each other, and nowhere is this more evident than on this website which explores how each language standardizes the sound an animal makes, from the fairly agreed-upon "meow" to the hotly-disputed "oink."
A soundboard that lets you generate background noise by mixing together a variety of looping sources, from the mundane and useful ("I'm calling you from the coffee shop") to the purely hypothetical ("marching band vs zombie apocalypse").
I'm a big fan of cultural true crime — it rarely actually involves a crime, but it does feature the sort of obsessive fact-finding that feels like outright wizardry, weaving together a historical cloth from the thinnest of threads.
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